Observer States

''Territorial authorities must help to prevent the economic crisis from becoming a social disaster''[13/07/2009]

''Local and regional authorities must help to prevent the financial and economic crisis from becoming a social one, and give citizens back their confidence that local public services will be maintained and social programmes will not suffer from budgetary cuts,'' stressed Congress Director Antonella Cagnolati at the conference on local responses to the global crisis, organised by the Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South-East Europe (NALAS), in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on 11 July.
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